font_category: decorative

Fat Face No. 20

Fat Face No. 20 font

This is almost a necessity if you are doing reproductions of mid-19th century posters and playbills.

French Ionic

French Ionic font

This would be a Clarendon if it weren’t for the cute serifs, which set it apart. Reads well in copy blocks.

Bamberg

Bamberg font

A compressed wood poster type from the mid-1800s. Certainly handy for excessive copy on a single line.

Tokoloshe

Tokoloshe font

“Tokoloshe” is a name in African mythology for a mischievous leprechaun-like figure that loves practical jokes and tricking people. There are many books of such African stories, for example Tales of the Tokoloshe by...

OL Sinead

OL Sinead font

Greek

Greek font

The Greek font started from an experiment with designing fonts based on a geometric grid. I joined the points on the grid with straight lines to form the various characters and found that this...

Parchemin

Parchemin font

The name “Parchemin” is derived from the word in old English for “parchment.” Our modern word “parchment” changed its spelling to conform with French spelling practices during the French occupation of England. The font...

Vivian

Vivian font

Vivian is a heavily decorated serif typeface based on my Bodoni Classic font. I have this flaw in my personality that just enjoys designing decorative typefaces. I made three cuts. First: the straightforward Vivian...

Fig Bun

Fig Bun font

Fig Bun is a slightly curly font with a cute attitude. When used in CAPS only, Fig Bun is is suitable for text in comics!

Diegeometrische

Diegeometrische font

Diegeometrische is an all uppercase geometric-based serif typeface featuring Latin, Extended Latin and Cyrillic character sets. – Latin, Extended Latin and Cyrillic character sets offer multilingual support. – Over 1000 kerning pairs for optimal…